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No matter what you should switch for personal use (which is what I consider banking, health, etc) to a gmail/yahoo type email account that will always be there no matter what your hobbies or attention span are.

No. Then Google / Yahoo own the domain name. Bite the bullet and buy your own domain name that you use only for personal stuff like email. It is ok to use Google to provide the service (like Goodle Apps for your domain), but YOU own the domain. You can then change providers at will over the next 50 years without ever changing your email address again.

1) You don't haul cargo in the same vehicle as humans. Cargo doesn't need the super-expensive "last 1%" reliability that a human crew demands.

2) You don't put the vehicle next to the rocket. You put it on top, where ice can't hit it, and exploding booster rockets are survivable. The astronauts on the Challenger, as least some of them, survived the explosion and died on impact with the water. A small crew capsule perched on the top, with a parachute system, might, just might, have survived.

3) You don't need humans up there at all. The future, for a generation or two at least, is unmanned exploration of the solar system. Look at where virtually all the meaningful scientific knowledge has come from in the last 20 - 40 - 60 years: unmanned probes.

Yep. We need pedestrians to adapt to the cars, not the other way around. It's a ROAD. Try opening your fucking eyes...

I completely agree. In return, your car should stay off the pedestrian paths. Good luck getting anywhere more a few hundred feet in my city without being blocked by a crosswalk.
Even with lights and pedestrian signals, you are still going to cross my pedestrian cross walk when I have the green walk light (your right and left turns)
You need to go back to preschool and learn how to share.

If I want to unlock the car, presumably I want to drive it. For that I'm going to need a key anyway, so...??

My car doesn't have a key, just a button to press. (Volkswagon, not a Ferrari or something else fancy). It just has a fob that needs to be in range for the "start" button to be enabled. This would be more convenient if my cell phone could be the fob, but only if it can't be hacked like this.

Check out "Starship Troopers" by Robert A. Heinlein. The scenario you describe is virtually identical to the political backdrop of that story. Good book. TERRIBLE movie. Not a bad idea for a democratic form of government. I just would like to skip the chaotic transition phase.